Cesar Chavez
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1a: Zerzan
occupation: Cesar Chavez PersonFunction 1
quote: [Chavez's] dream was to found a labor union of farmworkers. He had no money, no political connections, and no experience. He was not a particularly dynamic personality and had no special talent as a public speaker. The dream, he knew, was almost fanciful. Nevertheless, through determination, grit, and a dogged will to win, he forged a movement that successfully challenged powerful entrenched economic and political interests and helped thousands of Mexican Americans to new cultural self-awareness.
description: Amerikaans vakbondsbestuurder (1927-1993) @nl
quote: WE SHALL OVERCOME. Across the San Joaquin Valley, across California, across the entire Southwest of the United States, wherever there are Mexican people, wherever there are farm workers, our movement is spreading like flames across [a] dry plain. Our PILGRIMAGE is the MATCH that will light our cause for all farm workers to see what is happening here, so that they may do as we have done. The time has come for the liberation of the poor farm worker. History is on our side. MAY THE STRUGGLE GO ON! VIVA LA CAUSA!
subject: Category:Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients
label: César Chávez @ca
3a: Wells
description: syndicaliste paysan américain @fr
1pp: 83
occupation: Activism
children: 8
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2a: Wells
name: Cesar Chavez
subject: Category:People from Oxnard, California
1pp: 97
occupation: Civil rights
1pp: 125
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date: 2011-11-11
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2a: Pawel
1pp: 33
death date: 1993-04-23
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quote: The men and women who have suffered and endured much and not only because of our abject poverty but because we have been kept poor. The color of our skins, the languages of our cultural and native origins, the lack of formal education, the exclusion from the democratic process, the numbers of our slain in recent wars — all these burdens generation after generation have sought to demoralize us, to break our human spirit. But God knows we are not beasts of burden, we are not agricultural implements or rented slaves, we are men. And mark this well [..] we are men locked in a death struggle against man's inhumanity to man in the industry you represent. And this struggle itself gives meaning to our life and ennobles our dying.
quote: The union's survival, its very existence, sent out a signal to all Hispanics that we were fighting for our dignity. That we were challenging and overcoming injustice, that we were empowering the least educated among us, the poorest among us. The message was clear. If it could happen in the fields, it could happen anywhere: in the cities, in the courts, in the city councils, in the state legislatures. I didn't really appreciate it at the time, but the coming of our union signalled the start of great changes among Hispanics that are now only beginning to be seen.
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subject: Category:American trade union leaders
1pp: 52
3a: Pawel
subject: Category:20th-century Roman Catholics
1pp: 60
4a: Pawel
source: — Roger Bruns, 2005
caption: Chavez in 1979
resting place: César E. Chávez National Monument
death year: 1993
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align: right
subject: Category:1993 deaths
awards: Presidential Medal of Freedom
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subject: Category:American anti–Vietnam War activists
source: — Chavez at the 1981 convention
description: líder campesino estadounidense @es
type: Q19088
description: US-amerikanischer Gründer der Landarbeitergewerkschaft United Farm Workers @de
source: — Martin Luther King's telegram to Chavez after the latter announced his fast in February 1968
subject: Category:Dolores Huerta
subject: Category:Activists for Hispanic and Latino American civil rights
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label: 세자르 차베스 @ko
type: Q5
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subject: Category:United States Navy personnel of World War II
subject: Category:American nonviolence advocates
label: سيزار تشافيز @ar
subject: Category:American civil rights activists
description: America ninsala hachinima tuuntumdi so ŋun nyɛ doo @dag
subject: Category:Trade unionists from Arizona
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birth name: Cesario Estrada Chavez
2a: Ospino
death place: San Luis, Arizona, U.S.
source: — Cesar Chavez, on avoiding the pitfalls of the CSO
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subject: Category:Hispanic and Latino American military personnel
subject: Category:American trade unionists of Mexican descent
subject: Category:United Farm Workers people
description: American farm worker, labor leader, and civil rights activist (1927–1993)